The “Maverick” John McCain, who ran for the President during 2008 election, has a new tongue-in-cheek ad on YouTube that he hopes will help him win the US Senate seat in the Arizona GOP primary.

A mock campaign advertisement appeared on Senator McCain’s official YouTube channel. The commercial takes aim at McCain’s opponent J.D.Hayworth, ridiculing his poorly-worded political statements that came back to haunt him later.

For example, the advert mocks such former Congressman Hayworth’s stands like expanding state laws to allow folks to marry a horse, exposing Obama’s “secret” Kenyan birthplace (accompanied by a scene from Disney’s “Lion King”), Dracula misstep, and more.

Voiceover never mentions McCain himself and the commercial signs off with a line “paid for by friends of John McCain” accompanied by the following “legal” note:

I’m not J.D. Hayworth and I didn’t approve this message.

What do you think? Is this a brilliant advertisement comparable to the “Celeb” and “The One” commercials from 2008 campaign or yet another flop? Share your thoughts in the comment section.